<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Robert,<div><br></div><div>It's entirely possible that the validation code in TestShib will only permit URL-based names for providers. I didn't write that code and I'm afraid I don't have the time to go searching through the interestingly structured codebase to find it right at the moment.</div><div><br></div><div>If you can send me a copy of your metadata off-list, I would be happy to configure TestShib to load it as a one-off solution to keep progress rolling for Utah.</div><div><br></div><div>Take care,</div><div>Nate.</div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 23, 2012, at 22:38 , Robert Roll wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><br>I had the same problem earlier. However, I am now able to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>register a new IDP. However, we have an old style entityID<br><br> entityID="<a href="urn:mace:incommon:utah.edu">urn:mace:incommon:utah.edu</a>"<br><br>It created a new style entityID for me... When I edited the XML directly<br>and replaced it with our real idp-metadata.xml, I got an error that it did<br>not like the form of the url ?<br><br>Does testship NOT support these ?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Robert</span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>